Mohamed El-Erian Quotes
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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Custom is second nature.
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My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. The Negro today asks justice. We do not answer him - we do not answer those who lie beneath this soil - when we reply to the Negro by asking, 'Patience.'
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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.
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Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
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I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
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Venice is all sea and sculpture.
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From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial enterprises, where people lose confidence, the economy falters.
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When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
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The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
